Andy, et al.
I have no solution, but found your email thread as I'm looking to solve
exactly the same problem.  It's a tough nut to crack!

We have 6 tapes in a shared 3584 w/ exactly that problematic status:
The Library Mgr TSM's VolHistory shows tape as PRIVATE,REMOTE owned by other
TSM, but the other TSM's VolHist has long since finished with the tapes:
        two were obsolete DBB backups (probably cancelled/aborted)
        the other four show UNKNOWN in the devclass field (dunno why)
I believe these tapes are stuck in a crack in the Share Library reality
and are essentially lost unless someone knows now to remove the "useless
and inappropriate" REMOTE records from the Library Mgr's VolHistory.  If
that can be accomplished, then we can UPDate LIBVolume .... STATUS=SCRatch
to fix the problem.  I've tried CHECKOut LIBVolume... at the Library Mgr
TSM, but that didn't help.  The Library Sharer TSM can not do the CHECKOut
LIBVolume because the library is unknown.  I think the tapes have fallen
into a crack in TSM's reality.  Anybody else have a better grip on this?
If not, I'll open a PMR.
--
Jim.Owen AT Yale DOT Edu   (203.432.6693)

Andrew Carlson wrote:

On Fri, 20 May 2005 09:27:39 -0500, Ochs, Duane <Duane.Ochs AT QG DOT COM> 
wrote:

You can do a delete volume ###### discard=yes. This will delete all
references to data on that volume from the TSM database.

I had the volume checked in.  The volume now shows up in q libv:

tsm: TSMLIBM>q libv 3584lib 110544

Library Name  Volume Name  Status      Owner       Last Use   Home
Device
                                                              Element  Type
------------  -----------  ----------  ----------  ---------  -------
------
3584LIB       110544       Private     TSMJ                   1,095    3592

But, since the volume does not show up in TSMJ (actually it was a database
backup tape), I cannot delete it.  Any ideas?

--

Andy Carlson - Senior Technical Specialist
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